Mary Years

Julie Marie Wade is the author of many collections of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including the recent volumes Otherwise: Essays, selected by Lia Purpura for the 2022 Autumn House Nonfiction Book Prize, and Skirted: Poems. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Wade is professor of creative writing at Florida International University and makes her home with Angie Griffin and their two cats in Dania Beach. In 1992, she began watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show on Nick at Nite and never stopped.

“What an enchanting memoir. You don’t have to be a fan of The Mary Tyler Moore Show—or even know what it is—to be captivated by this funny, sad, inspiring journey of a clear-sighted woman for whom a fictional character is a guide for navigating life’s very real challenges. For MTM fans, of course, Julie Marie Wade’s book is a not-to-be-missed treat.”—Clifford Thompson, author of What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues and Twin of Blackness: A Memoir